“I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching peop...” — Janet Montgomery Quote

“I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.”

“I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.”

“You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.”

“I'm a shy human being.”

“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”

“But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.”